[LargeFormat] Jim - Off List

Thu Mar 6 22:50:04 2003

Hi Vince:

Thanks for your note.  I've looked through my pics and found one that's
about 522K
http://www.hemenway.com/pages/8x10%20Late%20Red%20Maple.htm

It's already 72dpi and I wonder if this is the one you told me about?

I know that it's much larger than the five other LF pictures... all that
I can think of is that I must have saved it at maximum jpeg, i.e., with
the smallest compression.

Jim - http://www.hemenway.com

Vincent Dobson wrote:
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I visited your site and enjoyed your pictures.  One was a little slow (took
> about 1 second instead of instantly) even though I have a dsl line.  I right
> clicked on and noticed the file was 1/2 meg.  Someone could save that file
> enlarge it and print out a pretty nice print.  Anything over 72 dpi is
> beyond a monitor resolution - I would reduce it to 100 dpi - you would have
> the exact same picture with a little to spare, but the file would be around
> 50 to 60 K for that size not 500+K and no one would be able to steal it for
> anything beyond a screen saver.  Just passing on some things I learned. :)
> 
> Vince Dobson
> Visions In Nature
> www.VisionsInNature.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net]On
> Behalf Of Jim Hemenway
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:57 PM
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Ultrabiglargeformatcamera
> 
> Guy:
> 
> Ahhh!
> 
> So I wasn't alone in my thinking.  I guess that I should have done it.
> Just imagine, one of those great big brown UPS vans, and me driving up
> to the courthouse across the channel from the Boston waterfront, backing
> up and rolling out the big gun... I mean big camera.
> http://www.hemenway.com/pages/Fisheye%20Boston.htm
> 
> I posted the following to the LUG last August, the incident(s) happened
> in the Fall of 2001.  I was answering a post by Stuart Phillips... I
> think that he was kidding me about being suspected of making crop
> cirlces with the 11x14.
> 
> ---------------
> Stuart:
> 
> You're closer to the truth than you think, as for as the Police are
> concerned.
> 
> Last Autumn, a few weeks after September 11th I took a few "vacation
> mornings" to carry the 11x14 and required other stuff over to Horn Pond
> to shoot some chromes of a swamp maple. (I also brought the R8 with 19mm
> lens, on topic sorta).
> 
> The first morning I attracted a lot of folks who wanted to know what I
> was doing.  I invited them to look under the black cloth to see for
> themselves.  You probably can guess the rest:
> 
> "I can't see anything!"
> 
> "Why do you bother with this, my Nikon is better and it has a meter in
> it already?"
> 
> "Something is wrong, it's upside down!" and
> 
> "I don't get it, is this some kind of television?"
> 
> One woman looked under the cloth, made a grunting sound and walked away,
> more on her later.
> 
> One man in his late 60s and was named Jerry. He was a lot more
> interested and asked me about the big filmholders, the lightmeter, etc.
> 
> A week or so later I was in the same spot trying again for the same shot
> as I had ruined the first when trying to process it in a print drum in
> the kitchen sink... hard to keep the correct temperature.
> 
> Jerry came by and told me that a woman had written a "Letter to the
> Editor" to the Woburn newspaper asking if anyone had checked out that
> man with the big camera to see if he might be taking pictures of the
> pond to find places to drop POISON. Jerry went on to tell me that he had
> TAKEN CARE of things for me.  He had called the police and told them
> that he had met me and had visited my web site and that I was "legit."
> 
> When I later dropped by the police station myself, the two in the office
> at first pretended that things had become serious for me but then
> happened to look at each other and started laughing. They allowed that
> they had no idea of the identity of the grunting woman... my first pick
> as the letter writer.
> 
> So, if crop circles begin appearing in Winchester or Woburn, they'll
> probably check on me first.
> 
> I can see the headlines, "Strange 61 year old photographer with
> televison-sized camera is being questioned by police about last night's
> crop circles, ties to Al Qaeda being investigated."
> --
> 
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
> 
> Guy Glorieux wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
> >
> > > I had thoughts of buying a used panel truck, mounting the camera
> > inside
> > > and then driving to places like the mountains and then shooting with
> > the
> > > back doors opened onto a vista.
> > >
> > > Eventually I came to my better senses.
> > >
> > Jim,
> >
> > There is this wonderful pinhole photographer by the name of Ilan Wolf
> > who drives around Europe with his van converted into a pinhole camera.
> > He's drilled holes all over the body to be able to get a range of
> > perspectives.  He processes the prints directly in the van...  Simple!
> >
> > Guy
> >
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